Weinstein to target NRA in new film

Film mogul Harvey Weinstein says he plans to produce a movie that will make the National Rifle Association wish it never existed.

“I’m going to make a movie with Meryl Streep, and we’re going to take this issue head on, and they’re going to wish they weren’t alive after I’m done with them,” Weinstein told Howard Stern on his radio show Wednesday, according to audio from Mediaite.

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Weinstein was on Stern’s show talking about a new project he’s working on based on a novel about a Holocaust uprising. When asked by Stern, the movie producer said he doesn’t own a gun.

“I never want to have a gun,” Weinstein said. “I don’t think we need guns in this country, and I hate it, and I think the NRA is a disaster area.”

The movie executive behind last year’s hit “The Butler” said he shouldn’t talk about the project yet but told Stern that it would be a “a big movie, like a ‘Mr. Smith goes to Washington.’” He said after the movie comes out, no one would want to be involved with gun stocks.

The title of the project will be “The Senator’s Wife,” according to a report on Deadline.com. It will reportedly be about the behind-the-scenes influence wielded by the NRA to defeat a gun control bill after the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn.

Weinstein has been a major supporter of President Barack Obama and has hosted fundraisers for the Democrats.